Initially when I sat down to reflect on the music of 2014, it didn’t seem very memorable. I didn’t spend quite as much time listening to music this past year due to an uptick in my podcast listening. However, after looking back through my various sources, I remembered loads of great stuff. I discovered many new artists and enjoyed some follow-up albums from old favorites. Hope you enjoy the list.

Favorite ‘Rediscovered’ Album

Brand New – Deja Entendu (2003)

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Wed, 01 Jan 2014 22:50:29 +0000http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/?p=2504It’s time for my annual blog post! This year my list started out with 98 potential albums. These are albums that I’ve listened to (and enjoyed) at least 5 times throughout the year. I slowly narrowed the list down during the past week and I’m pretty happy with the finalized list. If you’d like to follow along throughout the year, I suggest watching my last.fm page and music blog. Enjoy the list and Happy New Year!

Indie

CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
Grouplove – Spreading Rumours
The Naked and Famous – In Rolling Waves
The National – Trouble Will Find Me
Washed Out – Paracosm
St. Lucia – When the Night
Best Coast – Fade Away EP
Atlas Genius – When It Was Now

I really, really love music. I listened to a ridiculous amount of new music over the past year. As the year progressed, I started listening to less electronic/bass music and started listening to more indie/dream pop and hip-hop music. I listened to a lot of new artists and re-discovered some old favorites. To pick my favorite albums released this year, I relied heavily on my last.fm profile stats and my “weekly” music blog. Enjoy the list and Happy New Year!

]]>http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/2012/12/22/the-top-50-albums-of-2012/feed/0Skiing in Lake Tahoehttp://plzkthxbai.com/blog/2012/03/25/skiing-in-lake-tahoe/
http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/2012/03/25/skiing-in-lake-tahoe/#respondSun, 25 Mar 2012 14:32:53 +0000http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/?p=2385At the end of February I met up with a few friends in Lake Tahoe, California, for a few days of skiing in the Sierra Nevadas. It was my first visit to California and I was extremely excited to check it out. Unfortunately, this winter was one of the worst on record for snowfall and the mountains were in serious need of snow. After much deliberation, we decided to take our chances and hope for a big storm at the end of the week. Our luck paid off, as we received 15″ of snow during our last day of skiing at Squaw Valley. It was only the beginning of a big storm that eventually brought 5 feet of snow to the region over the next 4 days.

Lake Tahoe view from our hotel

The conditions during our first two days of skiing were less than ideal. They were good in the morning, but went downhill towards the end of the day. We made the 2-hour drive to Kirkwood for our first day of skiing. The drive was epic, with amazing views of Lake Tahoe and the surrounding mountains. Kirkwood was a fun mountain and seemed like it would be incredible on a powder day. The second day we drove to Alpine Meadows, which was only about 30 minutes away from our hotel on Lake Tahoe. Most of the mountain was covered in ice moguls, so we were forced to stay on a limited number of trails. We spent a lot of time in the terrain park at Alpine. The park was meticulously groomed and had a lot of smaller features, which was perfect for us since we were a bit rusty.

We woke up on the third day at 7 AM to 2 inches of snow outside of our hotel. By the time we got to Squaw Valley, it looked like there were around 4 inches at the base. We met up with some other friends and jumped on the gondola. It was a big powder day and Squaw was empty! Unbelievable. At the top of the gondola was the world’s first Starbucks “Ski-Thru” which was very cool. We skied powder all day at Squaw Valley and by the end of the day the mountain was reporting 15 inches of new snow. I don’t think I’ve ever had a day of skiing go by so fast!

Lake Tahoe was one of the most scenic places I’ve ever been to. Check out a few photos from the trip and a video edit that I made this afternoon.

As 2011 comes to a close, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at my favorite albums released this year. I listened to a lot of music. With great services like Spotify and iTunes Match recently released, I found myself listening to music constantly. I continued to explore new genres and, as a result, new artists. Many of the artists in my Top 50 are new to my music library this year. It’s been an exciting year of music discovery for me and I can’t wait for 2012!

I decided to break the list down into a few sections. I created mini-lists to group the albums by genre. This should make it easier to find the best albums in your favorite genre. I hope these lists will encourage you to explore some new music.

Best Dubstep/Glitch-Hop Albums

Welcome Reality by Nero

Kill Kill Kill by Kill The Noise

The Vision by Joker

Superior EP by PANTyRAiD

Game Time EP by Zomboy

100% No Modern Talking by Knife Party

Best Hip-Hop/R&B Albums

Take Care by Drake

Oneirology by CunninLynguists

Watch the Throne by Kanye West & Jay-Z

House of Balloons by The Weeknd

Best Pop Albums

Ceremonials by Florence + the Machine

With The Music I Die by Wynter Gordon

Femme Fatale by Britney Spears

Mylo Xyloto by Coldplay

Best Dance/Electronic Albums

Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming by M83

Within and Without by Washed Out

Holy Ghost! by Holy Ghost!

USA by Surkin

I Love You, Dude by Digitalism

Era Extrana by Neon Indian

Best Rock Albums

Pedals by Rival Schools

Belong by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Angles by The Strokes

Endgame by Rise Against

Waves by Moving Mountains

Take Care, Take Care, Take Care by Explosions in the Sky

Most Surprising Album

Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale was probably the most surprising album for me this year. I’ve never been a huge fan of Britney, even though I do listen to a decent amount of pop music. I’d assumed her career was basically over, so you can imagine my surprise when I first heard this album. While the lyrical content is rubbish, I love the overall dance and electronic vibe of the album. I found myself listening to this album a lot more than I’m willing to admit.

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http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/2011/11/25/itunes-match/#commentsSat, 26 Nov 2011 01:47:32 +0000http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/?p=2240Earlier this year Apple announced iTunes Match alongside its iCloud offering. iCloud allows you to access your music from all of your devices and download (or stream) the music you want to listen to. iTunes Match is intended for users who have music in iTunes that was not purchased from the iTunes store. This could be music purchased from Amazon, ripped from CDs, or downloaded from Napster back in the day. iTunes Match allows you to store up to 25,000 songs from your collection. (This limit does not include songs purchased from the iTunes Store.) The flagship feature of iTunes Match is the ability to “match” songs from your personal collection with those in the iTunes Store. This is a huge benefit because you don’t need to upload these tracks to iCloud, they will be automatically added to your account. On November 14th, two weeks after the “late October” deadline that Apple initially promised, iTunes Match went live in the US for $24.99/year. I have been using the new service for 10 days and I’m extremely pleased thus far.

Setting up iTunes Match

Setting up iTunes Match was a breeze since nearly everything is automatic. If you’re running the latest version of iTunes, you should see a new “iTunes Match” option in the left sidebar. This page will explain the service and provide you with a link to purchase the annual subscription. Once you sign up, iTunes will scan your music library and gather data about your collection. The matching is done by using an audio fingerprint which can identify the track regardless of the metadata you have in the ID3 tags. It took a few minutes to “match” my library of 21,737 songs. Amazingly, 19,651 of my tracks were matched! The final step in the process was to upload the remaining tracks that could not be matched. In my case, I needed to upload 2,083 songs and plenty of high-resolution album art that I have associated with most of my albums. This took a few hours on my good (30/5 Mbps) internet connection.

Once you’ve completed the initial match and upload process, your entire library will be backed up in iCloud! Any new music that you add to iTunes in the future will be automatically processed and added to iCloud. If you’re interested to see whether a song was matched or uploaded, you can add the new “iCloud Status” column to your Library view. For songs that are listed as matched, these songs will be available as a 256 kbps AAC track. This is fantastic for those old 128 kbps albums you might have in your library from the 90s. However, if you have a 320 kbps album that gets matched, it will only be available in 256 kbps bitrate for your other devices which do not actually have the original mp3 file. This seems like a fair trade-off to me.

Stream your music from other Mac OS X (and Windows) computers

My absolute favorite aspect of iTunes Match is the ability to have my entire music collection replicated perfectly to my laptop at work, without having to copy any of the files! iTunes Match syncs all of your iTunes Library metadata including playlists, play counts, “last played” information, comments, and full high-resolution album art. On the Mac, you can stream all of your music from Apple’s servers without ever downloading the music. If you want to download an album or song, you can do so by clicking on the little cloud icon. I’ve had fantastic playback this week with albums streaming almost instantly and without any stuttering or buffering. If you routinely use more than one computer and love music, this functionality is incredible.

Using iTunes Match on iOS

Most people don’t have two computers that they use on a regular basis, so it’s more likely that you will use iTunes Match on your iPhone, iPod, or Apple TV. Once you enable iTunes Match in the Settings app on the device, you’ll see a message telling you that the music on your device will be replaced with music from iCloud. Basically, you can’t have both iCloud music and locally-synced music from your Mac on the device. I’m optimistic that Apple could remove this limitation in a future software update, but for now, it sucks.

Once your device is configured to use iTunes Match, you’ll have your entire music library available. You will see a cloud icon next to albums that are in iCloud but not yet on your device. To listen to a song, just tap the song and it will begin to download to your phone. Once part of the song is downloaded, you will be able to start listening to it. iCloud on an iOS device is different from the Mac because you aren’t able to do pure streaming from iCloud. Anything that you listen to will be downloaded and saved on the device. Practically speaking, this makes sense since downloading over 3G uses a lot of data and can be slow. It seems logical to utilize the available disk space on the device to save songs that you frequently listen to. Luckily, the device is smart enough to manage available disk space and will delete the least-recently-played tracks once the device begins to fill up. It’s still a bit unclear how this works, but for now we can hope that the smart engineers at Apple made the right decisions.

Overall, I am less impressed with the iOS portion of iTunes Match. I’ve found that my Music app on the phone is quite sluggish with my huge library. For the first time it’s possible to have 1800+ albums in the Music app because the actual files don’t need to be on the device. Hopefully these performance issues will be resolved in a future update. iTunes Match is currently beta software, so some issues like this are expected.

Despite these issues, there are definitely many bright spots. For example, if you begin to play an album or playlist, the next song in the list will begin to download while the first one is playing. This means that once you buffer the first track in an album, you can pretty much listen to the entire album without having to wait for each song to buffer individually. I love that I can create and manage a playlist on my Mac and pull out my phone to see that the new playlist and songs are added almost instantaneously. Because there’s no need to sync the actual music files, everything stays in sync very quickly.

Wrap Up

I’m extremely impressed with iTunes Match so far. The benefits on the desktop are astounding and the iOS support looks promising. If Apple can allow access to both iCloud music and manually synced music on the iPhone, this would be perfection. It’s great to have another copy of my music collection safely backed up in the cloud and it’s pretty much absurd that this great service is available for only $2/month! I don’t see why anyone would pass this up.

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http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/2011/10/19/siri/#commentsWed, 19 Oct 2011 23:58:28 +0000http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/?p=2166With the launch of the new iPhone 4S last week, Apple introduced an intelligent personal assistant named Siri. Apple acquired the company, Siri, in April of last year and has since been integrating their software into iOS. Siri uses advanced natural language processing to assist with making phone calls, scheduling meetings, sending messages, or simply looking for a place to eat lunch. Siri uses the voice recognition technology from Nuance Communications to capture your speech with incredible accuracy and send it off to Siri’s brain for processing.

Siri is fantastic. The main reason I decided to upgrade from the iPhone 4 to the 4S was because of this new technology. I could probably pass up a faster processor, or an improved camera, but when something like Siri is announced, I just have to see how it works! It’s akin to when the first iPad was released. Siri feels like a game changer and I don’t want to miss out on the action. There have been a lot of reviews about how Siri works, so I won’t go into that too much, but I would like to discuss the future impact that Siri could have in both our lives and the tech industry.

Many iPhone users are frustrated that Apple restricted Siri to the iPhone 4S instead of including it as part of iOS 5 and allowing iPhone 4 users access. There’s been a lot of speculation around why Apple decided to do this. Some people are suggesting that the dual-core performance of the 4S was needed in order to support Siri. Others say that Apple restricted Siri to the 4S in order to sell more hardware and push curious users (like me) to upgrade. Another theory is that Apple used the 4S as a way to limit the number of Siri users during this “beta” period. I absolutely agree with this theory. Apple announced that they sold over 4 million iPhone 4S during the first weekend of sales. That’s a lot. However, when you compare this to the total number of iOS devices sold thus far (250 Million ((250 Million. Source: This is My Next))), it’s a small fraction. Let’s conservatively assume that 20 million of these users are on iOS 5 after the first week or two. That’s 5x the load on the already struggling Siri servers and network. By limiting Siri to 4S only, they can slowly increase load as they sell more devices. If they feel confident that they can scale, they may open up Siri to everyone in a future software update.

Siri works by streaming your voice to Apple’s servers as you talk and then, once you’re finished, converting this speech to text and performing the natural language processing to understand what you mean. It sounds complicated, but it works extremely fast as long as Siri’s servers are humming along. (The first few days after the 4S was released, Siri was seeing considerable load/traffic and would often respond that she was unable to connect to the network. I have not seen this error in the past few days, so the situation seems to be improving.) One drawback of always sending everything out to Apple’s servers is that you cannot use Siri when you are offline. So, if you’re traveling in another country without data roaming, you can’t use Siri. Practically speaking, this isn’t a huge issue… but it would be nice if a subset of the commands worked locally on the phone.

More importantly, streaming everything out to Siri’s datacenter provides some massive benefits. Apple is able to keep a huge database of every request ever sent to Siri. Over time they will be able to extract a massive amount of information about “the world’s questions”. In addition to gathering all of this data, Apple is able to update Siri’s brain without requiring iPhone users to do a software update. As far as we know, Siri could have updated 36 times since Friday’s launch. Apple could use all of this request data to gradually add functionality into Siri. For example, they could sort all of the requests that Siri was unable to answer and begin to support them. If 100,000 people asked for sports scores this weekend, maybe that should be the next area to focus on? Siri provides Apple with incredible access into the tasks and questions that millions of users around the world are trying to accomplish. This is huge! If this sounds familiar, it’s because Google has been doing this with their big search box for years.

There are some major parallels between Google search and the functionality enabled by Siri. The difference is that Siri has access to your email, location, text messages, calendars, contacts, and other information. And, just like with Google, privacy and trust issues will certaintly come up with Siri. She knows a lot about us, and it’s important that we can trust Apple with this information. Personally, I am so much more inclined to trust Apple than I am Google. Google makes their money by selling advertisements. This means gathering a lot of information about the user so you can display better ads and make more money. In contrast, Apple is in the business of selling devices. The software and services are just icing on the cake to help lock in customers and drive hardware sales. Apple has not shown a lot of interest in pushing ads or violating the user’s privacy. I feel pretty confident that Apple will keep my personal data private.

Right now Siri only knows about a limited amount of information. Siri is able to access the data on your phone as well as information from Yelp and Wolfram Alpha. If Siri does not know the answer to your question, she offers to Search the Web (Google) for you. You don’t need to spend too much time using Siri before you get a decent grasp of her knowledge. I don’t ask Siri about sports scores or current events. I don’t ask her to tweet for me (although, it is possible). Over time you could imagine that many more services could be added to Siri which would provide a lot of value to users. Siri learns more about us as time goes on and should be able to improve her results and understanding. I’m thrilled to be living in a time where this kind of technology has become a reality. I think Siri’s future is bright.

I’ve always been a huge fan of action sports films. There’s just something magical about watching some of the best athletes in the world travel to incredible places, ski/bike/ride ridiculous lines, and hit enormous jumps. It’s exciting to me because I can relate to the emotions they must be feeling, and I can appreciate the difficulty of the tricks they are doing. In most cases, they are getting to experience things that I’ll never be able to do. It’s like I’m living vicariously through them in some sort of dream world. It’s disappointing when you try to share this excitement with friends or family who are not particularly interested in the activity. They never seem to get it. They’re lacking that passion for the sport that many of us “core” fans have.

Many film companies have attempted to solve this problem. They strive to create films that can appeal to both passionate fans and a mainstream audience alike. It’s an extremely difficult task, but I think the guys at Red Bull Media House and Brain Farm Digital Cinema may have done just that. Legendary snowboarder Travis Rice and director Curt Morgan of Brain Farm have teamed up to create a documentary that has been 2 years in the making. The film follows Travis Rice and other top snowboarders across the globe while they ride pretty much anything that can be accessed by a helicopter. The documentary covers aspects of travel and filming that you don’t usually get to see in snowboard movies. There’s a distinct “behind the scenes” feel to the film that makes it one of the most engaging action sports films I’ve ever seen.

It’s widely assumed that this film had one of the biggest budgets ever in action sports. The hype surrounding this movie was massive. Billboards, featured trailers and ads during the VMAs, and a serious social media push really helped to reel in the mainstream audience. Red Bull was one of the biggest promotors of the film and continued to prove their dedication to action sports. One of the main reasons I wanted to see the film was because of the sheer production quality that was going into it. The film was shot on the Phantom Flex high-speed camera which can shoot 2,750 frames-per-second at 1080p! In addition to the Phantom, the Cineflex V14 HD stabilizer camera was used on many of the shoots to provide ridiculously smooth aerial footage. This camera was used in Planet Earth! To top it off, they teamed up with Dolby Digital for the audio mastering which happened at George Lucas’ Skywalker ranch. The Blu-ray will feature Dolby TrueHD 7.1 surround sound.

Speaking of the music, The Art of FLIGHT featured a fantastic soundtrack. Curt Morgan collaborated with Anthony Gonzalez of the electronic music group M83 to score some of the songs and create original tracks for the film and trailer. The soundtrack also features songs from Deadmau5, Nero, and a track by The Naked and Famous called “Young Blood”, which was one of my favorites. Every scene in the film seems to match the soundtrack perfectly. It’s beautiful.

The film can be purchased on iTunes in HD for $9.99. You can also order the Blu-ray edition on Amazon. If you haven’t figured it out already, I would highly recommend you put this film on the list. Even if you aren’t into snowboarding, the production value along is worth the cash.

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http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/2011/08/27/p90x-day-730/#commentsSun, 28 Aug 2011 03:11:17 +0000http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/?p=2069This coming Monday will be exactly 2 years since starting the P90X workout program. I first heard about the workout DVDs from a friend and later discovered that they were quite popular on late night infomercials. I decided to try it out and quickly realized that this was the real deal. This program is intense and requires serious motivation. Each workout lasts between 50 and 80 minutes and there are 12 different workouts. If you follow any of the 3 workout schedules, you will be working out 6 days a week for 13 weeks.

As the popularity of P90X continues to grow, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the workout from curious friends and family. People always ask me if I follow the nutrition plan (I don’t) or which workout I think is the hardest. Of course I also get a bunch of people asking if they should start the program. Many of my friends have tried it, and a few have completed it at least once. I’ve been meaning to write about it for the past year, so this seems like the perfect way to celebrate!

My Daily Workout

First, I have a confession. I do not follow any of the workout schedules. As many of you know, I am an avid mountain biker and the thought of spending 6 nights a week in front of my TV didn’t sit well. For about 10 months out of the year, I substitute a good mountain bike ride for 2-3 days of P90X. I try my hardest to work out 7 days a week. In the winter, this is a bit harder since the weather is not as nice and it gets dark early. I’d say that I’ve probably worked out at least 350 days this past year. I’m at the point now where I actually feel guilty if I have to skip a workout. This usually only happens if I’m traveling or somewhere where it’s just not possible to get a good workout in.

Since I don’t follow any of the recommended schedules, I keep my own schedule. I do at least 2 strength training P90X workouts each week. I rotate 4 of the P90X workouts: Chest & Back, Back & Biceps, Shoulders & Arms, Chest Shoulders & Triceps. Each of these workouts includes Ab Ripper X at the end, which is a quick 20 minute ab workout. I always do abs after the strength days. In between strength days, I try to get in a good cardio/leg workout. Usually this is a 10 mile mountain bike ride. If it’s raining and the trails are closed, I usually like to throw in the Plyometics workout. Fridays are generally my “open” day. Occasionally I will go for a bike ride if the weather is nice, but usually I like to do the Core Synergistics workout. On the weekends, I usually opt for 2 long bike rides or some other type of exercise. I’ve found that mixing a super fun workout like mountain biking in with my P90X workouts has been critical to staying with the program for so long.

I noticed myself progressing a lot during the first few months. I was getting much stronger and I was definitely noticing some muscle growth. However, I was always sore. Really sore. I spent the first few months using exercise bands for the strength workout. These are really good for when you are just starting out and don’t feel like spending a lot of money on dumbbells. They are also perfect for traveling. Eventually, I decided that the bands were not doing it for me anymore and I got a nice set of dumbbells. I think this brought me to the next level and I’m still seeing progression, albeit slower, with the strength workouts. If you are already pretty fit, I would suggest going straight for the dumbbells.

As a quick side note, I recently tried another workout called Bob Harper: Pure Burn Super Strength. This is a single, hour-long workout that somehow manages to hit everything. Every two weeks I try to fit this workout into my routine and it’s brutal. I’d venture to say that this is probably more difficult than any single P90X workout. So, if you have already done P90X and are looking for something new and challenging, check it out!

Exercise vs. Dieting

I mentioned that one of the questions I get a lot is about the P90X Nutrition plan. The program includes a fairly comprehensive guide for eating right. I’ve never been a big fan of structured diets, so I can’t say that I really know anything about this guide. I guess I have a problem with structured diets because they just don’t seem sustainable to me. I love eating and I do try to make healthy choices. However, I’ve discovered that I would much rather do a tough 1 hour workout each day and not have to worry about what I eat. If you’re always just worrying about what you eat and you never exercise, you’re missing many of the other benefits you get from exercise. Sure, it takes more time, but think of the physical and mental health benefits you get from a good workout. Counting calories can’t do that! Also, considering I spend a very large part of my day sitting in front of a computer, it’s really nice to be able to spend some time exercising.

Why not just go to the Gym?

During high school and college I used to spend a lot of time at the gym. Towards the end of college, I did not spend nearly as much time at the gym as I would have liked. If you have a good workout partner and enough time, the gym can be very good. However, if you don’t have a good workout partner… I find that I don’t push myself as hard when I’m alone at the gym. The P90X workout dude, Tony Horton, is an amazing motivator. The guy is nearly 50 years old and he’s ripped! I’m a lot more comfortable pushing myself to complete exhaustion when I’m at home.

Originally when I started the workout, my plan was to do P90X until I got bored or annoyed with it. At that point I would get a gym membership and continue where I left off. Well, it’s been 2 years so far and I’m still not sick of P90X. I’m a bit shocked, to be honest. I love the convenience of being able to come home from work and start working out immediately. I don’t need to change clothes, drive to the gym, wait for equipment, etc. I just push play on my Playstation and I’m good to go. I’m able to eliminate a lot of the extra time that is padded onto a normal gym workout since I can cut out travel and all of that other stuff.

Is P90X right for me?

This is the ultimate question. The P90X program is marketed towards people who are already “in pretty good shape”. This is a very intense workout and it’s not recommended for people who’ve spend the last few years sitting on the couch. Sure you’re welcome to try it out, but the likelihood of you finishing the program is much smaller. I was in decent shape when I started thanks to mountain biking. The first few weeks of P90X were seriously brutal.

Another major issue is the time commitment. You should plan on allocating 90 minutes every day. For many people, their schedule just can’t support this type of program. I’ve gotten into the habit of coming home every day after work and working out before dinner. This means that we don’t usually eat dinner until 7:30-8pm. Obviously if you have kids or a very demanding job, this probably wouldn’t work for you.

Motivation is another huge factor. Anyone who has completed the program will tell you that it takes a lot of willpower and self-motivation. You need to seriously want it if you are going to succeed. Since it’s a home workout, it can be very tempting to come home from work exhausted and opt for the couch instead of your workout. I’m a very driven person so I generally don’t have a problem with this. Usually once a week I won’t want to workout but I just force myself to push play and do it anyway.

Finally, everyone is different. P90X offers 3 different routines based on your fitness level. There’s a lean version with more cardio, the Classic version, and even a Double workout. Some people will love the program and complete it many times over. Others will hate it and might be looking for something totally different. I can safely say that I LOVE it and I’m hoping to knock out a few more years.